The Global Urban Datafest is a multi-city hackathon, a weekend of intense collaborative coding. We bring together two diverse groups. One is developers, data scientists, open hardware enthusiasts. The other includes urban experts, journalists and specialists in all other fields. Diverse teams typically produce best results. This is why we invite people of all backgrounds to participate.

What will I do at the hackathon? You'll work with a team to rapidly design solutions for challenges. At the end of the two days, teams will present their solutions to a panel of city representatives and other experts. You could help ideate and create an innovative software or hardware application.What are the challenges?

Create a project page
before Saturday. Include the team name as well as team member names,
but feel free to leave out project information if you are not sure yet.
We'll use these names for the Raspberry Pi raffle throughout the
weekend!

Complete project information by 5:30 PM on Saturday.

Have the demo ready by 4:30 PM on Sunday.

The project code has to be written during the weekend. (using an existing open-source library is fine)

Create a GitHub repo as early as possible if you plan to open source
your project. Contact us to add you into the global-urbal-datafest
organization. Please note that to participate in the global competition,
your project needs to be open source.